Director,Programmatic

_**Job Description**_ Company Overview At Horizon Media, we are committed to fostering innovation and achieving success for our clients' businesses through exemplary media planning and buying. Within Horizon, the Programmatic media capability plays a pivotal role in ensuring that our clients' messages and value propositions resonate with consumers amidst a rapidly evolving media landscape. Horizon is devoted to investing in technology, automation, and artificial intelligence to enhance our offerings, making them as intelligent, sophisticated, interconnected, effective, and distinguished as possible. Programmatic media planning and activation goes to the heart of Horizon’s investment focus. Job Summary The **Director, Programmatic** role seeks an experienced, confident, programmatic media veteran who can be a leading voice for clients in steering them to adopt the most effective and advanced programmatic media strategies and activation approaches. The person will demonstrate an elevated ability to think and provide thought leadership as relates to emerging opportunities and constructs that can achieve faster adoption with clear and organized understanding of what things mean and how to package them up effectively. This person is vital in creating the reputation that Horizon’s programmatic practice wants to have for being best-in-class. Main Duties and Responsibilities **60% Thought Leadership** * Thought leader: Recognizes every opportunity to dimensionalize a client question or line of inquiry into an organized perspective that shows comprehensive understanding, connection to a client’s business, and thoughtfulness in threading a throughline. Oversees powerpoint creation for external deliverables, POVs, recommendations and all client matters to present an impressive imprint on client material and interactions. * Frameworks work: Develops and implements measurement frameworks in conjunction with lead Analytics team members to answer questions that clients may not hav